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"mom I want a rules-based international order"

"we have a rules-based international order at home"

rules-based international order at home: "it's fine when we do it"

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Something I'm starting to really get… well, annoyed isn't the right word, maybe perturbed at, is when I go and I find a book to read and I look at the description and it says, "Blorbo and her friends go and do epic stuff and blah blah blah" and that's all well and good but then I get to the bottom and it says "Part one of a series!"

That. I'm exhausted at that. And I don't know why. In my fanfic, I've written a ton of series. I get it. But something about knowing that it's a whole thing just seems to exhaust me when it comes to actually reading something. The worst is seeing that it's part like four or something and it sounds really good but I really don't want to slog through three books (or however many) and I know I can just pick it up and read it (hello, Discworld) but I haven't had much luck with that in the past (not you, Discworld, you're perfect).

Maybe it's the whole franchise fatigue thing going on. I'm tired of movies that require homework and it's bleeding over into how I feel about books now. I just want a contained story without all this extra crap. Of course, the irony of this is if I read a contained story and I love it, I'm going to want more and thus the wheel goes ever forward.

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There’s this guy in town who owns this little house, and a while back he rescued a street dog that was going to get put down. Turned out she was pregnant.

Problem is, he has mental health & drug issues and couldn’t afford to get them all spayed & neutered, so now there are 6 grown bitches with 15 puppies total, and they’ve dug under his fence in multiple places but he can’t afford to fix it so they go roaming all around town. (When I say can’t afford it, I mean his house is currently running on a generator because he can’t afford his electric bill.) He’s also a day laborer so he cannot take multiple full days off work to take them to the vet an hour away. He’s in a really rough spot.

He’s not a bad person. He’s just overwhelmed.

And this little conservative town with 6 churches for 300 people, have they tried to help their neighbor? Have they adopted the puppies he’s been trying to give away? Have they offered resources?

NOPE! All they wanna do is talk shit about him and complain about the dogs but never lift a finger of their own. And they come to his house to yell at him and cuss him out about the dogs, which does not exactly engender in him a cooperative attitude, as you might imagine.

So after a while of this going on, my mom gets fed up with all the NIMBY bullshit and starts talking to the guy, because she’s done animal rescue for 20-odd years and has Connections. He’s resistant at first, but when he realizes she’s not being an asshole to him on account of his addiction or the dogs, he decides to let her help.

She gets to work organizing and networking. Finds a non-profit that will cover vaccinations, spay/neuter, and flea treatments for all the dogs. Talks the next-door neighbor into paying for materials to fix the fence, since this guy can do the work of it himself. Gets him in touch with another non-profit that will adopt out the adult dogs.

Less than 2 weeks after she decided to do something, all puppies have been to the vet, 10 puppies and 4 adult dogs have been adopted out, and the second non-profit is coming by next week to pick up the remaining 7 dogs to ship them out for adoption.

I’ve learned a lot of things from my mom—some good, some bad—but I think the most important positive message she lives as an example of is this: sometimes, when something needs done and no one else is willing, you gotta stand up and say “I’ll do it.”

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Recycled tumblr humor

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Doing a thing

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just saw this clip and i think itd make a funny reaction image what do u think... does it have potential

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I wish there were medieval fantasy written by people who actually found the medieval period interesting

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I melted down a bottle cap and made it into a guitar pick.

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If i was a sickly little peasant boy designated by the aristocracy to carry messages back and forth for pennies and you found me against our citys outer wall with a deep wound in my chest from a musket ball and a letter cluthed in my hand and i told you that my dying wish was to have someone read that letter to me so i would know i died for something important and you open it up and you find a single large illustrated diagram of an onion would you tell me what it was? What would you say?

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When I'm lost and trying to figure out where to go.

wait, isnt NSFW the letters on the compass

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Friend: who’s your favorite LotR character

Me: Shelob

Friend: What? It’s a giant evil spider. Why her?

Me: I dunno, i just find her relatable.

“…she served none but herself…bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness.”

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much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today

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goncharov

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Arcane is an advanced form of doomed by the narrative/doomed from the beginning because the show is trying so hard to create this serious, intricate story but the endgame of this story is everyone ending up in League of Legends